Justin Sparks

Expertise

Justin is a dealmaker with 30 years’ experience, helping clients to sell their businesses, buy companies and raise finance. As an owner-manager, who has set up, developed and successfully sold a business, Justin can relate to and understand the issues facing clients who need help finding the best solution for them and supporting them to navigate the pitfalls of a complex transaction.

Career

Justin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994 with PWC, working in their Insolvency and Restructuring team, gaining invaluable commercial experience dealing with insolvent and distressed companies. He then went on to join EY’s Corporate Finance team in 1996 with roles in financial due diligence, private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

In 2003, Justin worked at Bridgepoint, a mid-market PE institution, in their investment team. And then in 2005, he became a co-founding partner of Springboard, which he managed and developed into a multi-award-winning national M&A practice before selling the business to Begbies Traynor PLC in 2018. Alongside David Neate, Justin founded Evolve Corporate Finance.